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Subtitled “Legends, Mysteries, and the Alien Connection to Eternal Life”

New Page Books, 2017

ISBN 978-1-63265-075-7

$16.99/£13.99

Is it so ridiculous to imagine that our ancestors were visited by hyper-advanced beings from space? It would be entirely natural for them to consider such beings to be gods. It’s not just the ‘magical’ technology on view, their level of knowledge, or their awe-inspiring presence. Perhaps these visitors were indeed effectively immortal. In the last decade or so, futurists have begun to seriously consider a world where aging is eradicated – or at least seriously curtailed. Gene therapy, cloning, stem cell research, advances in medicine – potentially a potent brew of treatments which might, together, offer a fabled fountain of youth to Humanity.

As Nick Redfern argues in his latest book about the ancient gods and their alien connection, if interstellar space-farers were just a few centuries more advanced technologically than us, then it is quite reasonable to imagine that they had already cracked aging. Indeed, one might even add that extending lifetimes considerably would be a mandatory requirement to interstellar exploration, given the timescales involved. In other words, the very presence of spacecraft in our ancient skies millennia ago implies that the pilots are effectively immortal.

But … we’re jumping ahead of ourselves. Firstly, what of the evidence for such a contentious claim?